[et-mgmt-tools] Question about cobbler - variable substitution

[Michael DeHaan]

Rainer Duffner wrote:
>
> Am 04.12.2007 um 19:42 schrieb Michael DeHaan:
>
>>
>> How are you installing?
>>
>> PXE menus? Koan with --profile? These use the kickstart rendering.
>>
>> PXE with a set MAC address? Koan with --system? These use the 
>> kickstarts_sys rendering.
>>
>
>
> Well, when it PXE-TFTP-boots, I get into a menu - but I actually don't 
> want to do that ;-)
> I want to use a MAC-based system.
> Did I do something wrong? I just added the systems via the web-GUI and 
> assumed it would select the right system via the MAC-address I entered.
>
It will ... provided the MAC addresses match up. It sounds like they 
might not.

If you have the MAC entry, it should boot directly to whatever the 
system is assigned to and not sit on the menu.